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Baking 101

Learn how to bake delicious desserts with ease with the help of these baking 101 guides focused on useful information and tips on baking ingredients, techniques, equipment, ingredient conversions, and a pinch of baking science.

My collection of baking basics includes conversion charts as well as base recipes such as the best pie crust or from scratch homemade puff pastry that you can use to make all sorts of delicious desserts. Ingredient guides such as what do eggs do in baking and what is white chocolate and how to use it. Useful tips on how to store and freeze your desserts, eg. how to store muffins to keep them fresh. As well as troubleshooting guides eg. how to get cake out of bundt pan.

What is Quince Fruit

Chantilly Cream in a ramekin.

Chantilly Cream

Oreo pie Crust on a cooling rack.

Oreo Pie Crust

Cake Pan Sizes & Conversions

What Is Heavy Cream

Strawberry Compote in a glass.

Strawberry Compote

How To Soften Cream Cheese (5 ways)

What Is Yuzu Fruit and How Does It Taste (Ultimate Guide)

What Is Durian Fruit & What Does It Smell Like (Ultimate Guide)

How To Blind Bake Pie Crust (Ultimate Guide)

What Is Matcha and What Does It Taste Like (Ultimate Guide)

Bake with Yeast

What is Custard

Salted vs Unsalted Butter in Baking

How to Make Cupcakes Moist

How to Fix Dry and Crumbly Cookie Dough

What is Shortening in Baking

cashew butter in a glass.

How to make Cashew Butter

Pecan butter in a glass.

How to make Pecan Butter

Walnut butter in a glass.

How to make Walnut Butter

Hazelnut butter in a glass.

How to make Hazelnut Butter

pistachio butter in a glass.

How to make Pistachio Butter

What is Ruby Chocolate

3 different types of softened butter.

How to Soften Butter Quickly

3 spoons with different stages of the creaming method.

How To Cream Butter And Sugar

How to pasteurize eggs

cookies on parchment

How to Soften Hard Cookies

white chocolate chunks.

What is White Chocolate

dipping a whisk into a bowl of melted chocolate.

How to melt Chocolate Chips

walnut and pecan in a storage container.

Pecans vs Walnuts

Flour in a textile bag.

How to store Flour long term

Blueberry muffins.

How to store muffins to keep them fresh

burned cookies on a tray.

What to do with Burnt Cookies & How to fix them

rainbow cupcakes in a box.

How to store and freeze cupcakes

sugar cane sticks and granulated sugar in a cup.

Cane Sugar vs. Granulated sugar

chocolate brownies on baking paper.

How to Store Brownies (Ultimate Guide)

Rough Puff pastry.

Quick & Easy Rough Puff Pastry (VIDEO)

Puff pastry.

How to make Traditional French Puff Pastry

filling a cupcake with Biscoff spread.

How to fill Cupcakes

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I am Katalin Nagy, and it is my pleasure to welcome you to Spatula Desserts, a baking blog where I will teach you how to bake like a Pro with the help of my foolproof recipes, baking tutorials, and online baking classes! 

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